linux-ext4 - Re: torrent hash failures since 3.9.0-rc1

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Date:	Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:26:15 -0400
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Cc:	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
Subject: Re: torrent hash failures since 3.9.0-rc1

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 12:12:27AM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
 > > I've started a full bisection from v3.8 to todays git tree. It will take
 > > ~13 steps. However it's already late here in Germany. I will continue
 > > the bisection tomorrow and report back.
 > 
 > The issue started with:
 > 
 > 74cd15cd02708c7188581f279f33a98b2ae8d322 is the first bad commit
 > commit 74cd15cd02708c7188581f279f33a98b2ae8d322
 > Author: Zheng Liu <wenqing.lz@...bao.com>
 > Date:   Mon Feb 18 00:32:55 2013 -0500
 > 
 >     ext4: reclaim extents from extent status tree
 > 
 > Please note that my local rtorrent version was configured with
 > "--with-posix-fallocate". I'm not sure if distributions also enable this
 > flag, but it could explain why Ted and Dave weren't able to reproduce
 > the problem so far.

Looks like Fedora doesn't, so indeed that could explain it.

	Dave

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